Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usWed, 16 Jan 2013 15:24:25 +0000Developer canned for outsourcing his job so he could surf Reddithttp://www.dailydot.com/news/developer-outsourced-job-china-reddit/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/9b/28/9b28ee950a0e7f0cc382f69966d6f90d.jpg'></p><p>
One thing you learn while writing for a Web company is that developers are gonna do what developers are gonna do. They&#39;ll blast techno throughout the day. They&#39;ll drink soda before 10am. To writers, they&#39;re just a different breed.</p>
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So it comes as no surprise that we see this story out of the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EGh4ld_KwXUJ:securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2013/01/14/case-study-pro-active-log-review-might-be-a-good-idea/+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">Verizon Risk Team&#39;s archives of company VPN (virtual private network) log studies</a> about a developer in America who secretly outsourced his work to China so that he could surf the Internet all day and take himself a long lunch.&nbsp;</p>
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The employee, a guy Verizon called &quot;Bob&quot; who worked at &quot;a U.S. critical infrastructure company&quot; (sounds important!), did such a thing despite the fact that his company had previously set up a &quot;fairly standard VPN concentrator&quot; so that it could better surveil company employees who&#39;d decided to telecommute. It pretty much happened right away: The company set up the VPN system one day; the next, it noticed an active connection coming from Shenyang, China.&nbsp;</p>
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Basically, Bob had been busted.</p>
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By all accounts, Bob was an inoffensive and quiet 40-something software developer who&#39;d supported his family through a paycheck from this company for quite a long time. He had a six-figure salary. He was, apparently, well-respected and good at what he did. He loved programs like C, C++, Perl, and Java&mdash;or so his employers believed.</p>
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But Bob didn&#39;t care much for working, so he decided that he would do something about it. One day, he called up China and spoke with an employee at one of the country&#39;s consulting firms.&nbsp;</p>
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The two parties arranged a deal that would allow the consulting firm to do all of Bob&#39;s work at a cut of the cost. Quite literally, Bob would pay this firm just one-fifth of his salary.&nbsp;</p>
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&quot;Authentication was no problem,&quot; Verizon wrote. &quot;He physically FedExed his RSA token to China so that the third-party contractor could log in under his credentials during the workday.&quot;</p>
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Bob still showed up to work. In fact, he managed to maintain somewhat of a standard 9-to-5 schedule. It&#39;s just that he&#39;d show up and eschew work so that he could concentrate on the things he actually wanted to do throughout the day.&nbsp;</p>
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So what exactly was he doing? Verizon sent a team of crack investigators to scope out his browsing history. According to those investigators, Bob&#39;s day typically played out as follows:</p>
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9am: Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos<br />
11:30am: Take lunch<br />
1pm: eBay time<br />
2pm: Facebook updates&mdash;LinkedIn<br />
4:30pm: End of day update email to management<br />
5pm: Go home</p>
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I mean, it sounds pretty nice. Bummer for Bob: HR fired him before Verizon could finish saying &quot;Shenyang.&quot;&nbsp;</p>
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Good thing that LinkedIn profile&#39;s up to date.</p>
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<em>Photo via </em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/juzzy27/5590400579/"><em>Juzzy27</em></a><em>/Flickr</em></p>
chase@dailydot.com (Chase Hoffberger)Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:24:25 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/developer-outsourced-job-china-reddit/NewsReddit